Glaziers & Glassworkers Local #513

Glaziers & Glassworkers Local #513

Glaziers & Glassworkers Local #513 is a St. Louis-based pension fund established under the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 58, representing union glaziers and glassworkers in the region. The fund is led by Business Manager John Deeken, who oversees its operations from the union hall at 5916 Wilson Avenue. The fund follows a diversified investment strategy, allocating member contributions across broad public-market exposures — likely spanning equities, fixed income, and alternative assets typical of mid-sized Taft-Hartley plans. It manages three primary vehicles: the St. Louis Glass & Allied Industries Pension Plan, the St. Louis Glass & Allied Industries Health and Welfare Fund, and the Glaziers Local 513 Defined Contribution Money Purchase Plan. The fund's geographic footprint remains local to the St. Louis metropolitan area, where its members work in commercial and residential glass installation. Team structure is lean, with Deeken as the senior executive. The fund maintains a political action committee (Glaziers Local 513 PAC) and participates in the St. Louis Building & Construction Trades Council. No recent operational events have been publicly reported for the fund itself, but its parent body IUPAT District Council 58 remains active in regional labor negotiations. As a Taft-Hartley fund, its structural differentiator is the joint labor-management governance model that Taft-Hartley plans use: trustees drawn equally from union membership and employer representatives oversee investment decisions, creating a check on fiduciary risk that distinguishes from single-employer plans.